Aunt Wiki: “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”

Me: Oh… I don’t get it…

Aunt Wiki: well, it basically means that a company doesn’t rely on internal idea or research sources only for their activities.

Me: So… They’re buying technological patents from external resources?

Aunt Wiki: Yes… And no. It doesn’t always come in the form of patents. It sometimes come in the form of royalties because the idea is not always used for product, it can also be used for the marketing, packaging, or anything that works for the company!

Aunt Wiki: Kraft has its own page entitled “Innovate with Kraft”. In this page, you can submit product ideas, packaging design, even marketing ideas. and you will get paid for it if Kraft considers your idea is profitable.

Me: Oh I see! Thanks now I get it.

Aunt Wiki: You’re welcome! Any other question for today?

Me: Yes actually. What is an Open Business Model?

Aunt Wiki: Open Business represents a concept of doing business in a transparent way by intimately integrating an ecosystem of participants, collaborating in public space. Open Business structures make contributors and non-contributors visible such that the business benefits are distributed accordingly. They activate personal engagement and productivity by benefitting the contributors and producers that they can live from it and helping the clients to reduce their costs.

Me: huh…?

Aunt Wiki: Well just like Uncle Google!!!

Me: Like… doing everything for free, even giving people more benefits compared to the efforts used to access it?

Aunt Wiki: yes. Google give us free e-mail, free video streaming site, free blogs, even some tools like Google docs. And people can even earn money from the google ads in their blogs. Very nice, isn’t it?

Me: Oh I see…

Aunt Wiki: Basically, the knowledge is free through membership or large membership, and the pay is given based on their performance. Also, net profit is split within members. Nice, isn’t it?

Me: Yeah. And that makes sense too because “open” means that it isnt owned by a group or someone…

Hmm to me there are several innovations that is important in my life. This is because human are so smart that they created various inventions that later became a part of their daily life.

So when you say most important, I’ll think of rice cooker. because i am constantly hungry three times a day. wait… that’s normal, isn’t it?

To me rice is very important to my life, because yes for indonesian, rice is often regarded as the center of life, even more than a meal itself. And not also to indonesians but also to some asian countries. Sometimes having a meal without rice cannot be regarded as a proper meal for us.

These are the prove that rice is an integral part of asian life:

Singaporean Hainanese Chicken rice

Malaysians Nasi Lemak

Korean bibimbap

Japanese Onigiri

And last but not least… Our beloved Nasi Goreng 🙂

well if there is no rice cooker, imagine how much effort we need to use to get a freshly cooked rice…